| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Taʻziyeh : a twist of history in everyday life / Negar Mottahedeh -- The gender dynamics of Moharram symbols and rituals in the latter years of Qajar rule / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- "Oh, my heart is sad. it is Moharram, and the moth of Zaynab" : the role of aesthetics and women's mourning ceremonies in Shiraz / Ingvild Flaskerud -- The daughters of Karbala : images of women in popular Shiʻi culture in Iran / Faegheh Shirazi -- Iconography of the women of Karbala : tiles, murals, stamps, and posters / Peter J. Chelkowski -- Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of a women's Majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas -- Sayyedeh Zaynab : the conqueror of Damascus and beyond / Syed Akbar Hyder -- Gender and Moharram rituals in an Ismaʻili sect of South Asian Muslims / Rehana Ghadially -- Women of Karbala moving to America : Shi'i rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Women's religious rituals in Iraq / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Basima Q. Bezirgan -- From mourning to activism : Sayyedeh Zaynad, Lebanese Shiʻi women, and the transformation of Ashura |
| Summary |
Twelve ethnographic essays that explore women's roles in the rituals that commemorate the Battle of Karbala, the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Shīʿah -- Rituals
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Religious life -- Islam
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Muslim women -- Religious life
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Karbalāʼ, Battle of, Karbalāʼ, Iraq, 680
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Shi'a.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Muslim women -- Religious life
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Religious life -- Islam
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Shīʻah -- Rituals
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Ritus
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Frauenforschung
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Taʿziyeh
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Schiiten
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Frau
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Sjiʻisme.
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Riten.
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Symboliek.
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Vrouwen.
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11.83 movements within Islam.
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Shīʻah -- Rituals.
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Muslim women -- Religious life.
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Karbalāʼ, Battle of, Karbalāʼ, Iraq, 680.
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Iraq -- Karbalāʼ
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Karbala -- Schlacht.
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| Genre/Form |
History (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aghaie, Kamran Scot, editor.
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| LC no. |
2005007772 |
| ISBN |
0292796579 |
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9780292796577 |
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0292709366 |
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9780292709362 |
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